JGLS Sonepat has placed 92 out of 235 students graduating in its 5 year LLB class of 2017, revealed a break-down of figures for the course requested by Legally India.
Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas was the largest recruiter at 12 jobs accepted, out of 29 law firms, 6 companies, 3 research programs and several advocates that hired from the batch.
Khaitan & Co and Economic Laws Practice (ELP) each hired 3, while 2 each were hired by Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas, Nishith Desai Associates, Trilegal and Wadia Ghandy.
One foreign law firm - Herbert Smith Freehills - also made one accepted job offer for a lucrative training contract.
Law firms picked up a total of 48 students, companies took 13, with 27 going into litigation.
107 students had participated in the campus placement activities. The total 2017 graduating batch size is 235, with 39 having opted out of placements, according to the university.
According to the figures, besides the 92 accounted for, another:
- 26 enrolled for higher studies,
- 21 are joining family practice or business,
- 22 are preparing for competitive exams,
- 17 are “undecided”, and
- 15 are “looking for placement”.
Other law schools’ 2017 recruitments
- NLU Jodhpur 2017 recruitments: 42 out of 50 (30 Big-7 firms; 2 foreign firms
- Nalsar 2017 recruitments 100%: 58 jobs (32 Big-7 firms + S&R; 3 foreign firms
- HNLU 2017 recruitments: 49 jobs/LLMs for 73 (3 Big-7)
- NUSRL 2017 recruitments: 27 out of 40 (3 Big-7)
- NUJS 2017: 100% jobs for 78 members (53 Big 7; 3 foreign firms
JGLS list of law firms recruitments 2017
29 law firms, including Herbert Smith Freehills, recruited 48 students.
| Firm | Placements |
|---|---|
| Advaita Legal | 1 |
| Argus Partners | 1 |
| Alternate Law Forum | 1 |
| Bharucha & Partners | 1 |
| Chandhiok & Associates | 1 |
| Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas | 12 |
| Desai Law Offices | 1 |
| Economic Laws Practice | 3 |
| Enviro Legal | 1 |
| Hammurabi & Solomon | 1 |
| Inttl Advocare | 1 |
| Kanga & Co | 1 |
| Khaitan & Co | 3 |
| KMA Law Office | 1 |
| Lakshmikumaran & Sridharan | 1 |
| Lex Favios | 1 |
| M&M Legal | 1 |
| Nishith Desai Associates | 2 |
| Pamasis Law Chambers | 1 |
| Rajdeep Behura & Associates | 1 |
| Remfry & Sagar | 1 |
| S&R Associates | 1 |
| Satram Das B & Co | 1 |
| Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas | 2 |
| SMA Legal | 1 |
| Surge Laws | 1 |
| Trilegal | 2 |
| Wadia Ghandy | 2 |
| Herbert Smith Freehills | 1 |
Companies
7 companies hired 13 graduates with HCL Technologies being the largest recruiter.
| Corporate | Placement |
|---|---|
| Clutch Group | 1 |
| HCL Technologies | 4 |
| Jirico | 1 |
| JSPL | 2 |
| PwC | 3 |
| Thomson Reuters | 1 |
| Wizcraft International Entertainment | 1 |
Litigation & Clerkship
Jindal claimed in its press release that 27 students were placed with advocates’ chambers, providing detailed names of chambers and advocates for 15, including one clerkship.
| Advocate/clerskship | Placements |
|---|---|
| Justice Rohinton Nariman | 1 |
| Anup Dahiya | 1 |
| Ashish Shrivastava | 1 |
| Deepesh Beniwal | 1 |
| Jasbeer Malik | 1 |
| KL Mehta | 1 |
| Ratnanko Bannerjee | 1 |
| Ritin Rai | 1 |
| Rustomkhan | 1 |
| S Ramesh Babu | 1 |
| Simon Benjamin | 2 |
| Smriti Sinha | 1 |
| Subhash Agrawal | 1 |
| Supriya Juneja | 1 |
| Others | 12 |
Policy research and fellowship programs
Teach for India hired 2 graduates while one each joined LAMP and The Legist.
Comments
You can't force students to sit for placements, you know. If they feel they have a better career prospect beyond campus placement, so be it.
1) There many "undecided", "looking for placements". "competitive exams" etc. Are these students who could not find a job?
2) JGLS has many 3-year LLB students. What about o them?
3) Which universities made LLM offers?
4) Where does JGLS stand overall if one makes a comparison? JGLS seems to be a little below the likes of Bhopal and Gujarat, but above HNLU, RGNUL etc. Would this be an accurate assessment?
1. 'competitive exams' would mean they're preparing for UPSC, Judicial Services and the likes. Many law students choose this path; shouldn't be surprising - and clubbing them with 'students who could not find a job' would be wrong. Same goes for 'undecided'. You'd be surprised as to how many kids these days remain unsure of the career they want to pursue till the very end.
3. I don't know the complete numbers, but I know for a fact that students are going to Oxford, NUS, NYU and Cambridge for their post-grads. How many, and what other universities, I don't know.
4. Seems to be fair. Perhaps, at par with Bhopal and GNLU even. Definitely above HNLU, RGNUL and the likes. What seems to be at the bad side for Jindal is their batch size, but if you compare it with the number of students who actually chose to sit for placements, I think that would give you a fair analysis.
Someone from Jindal or LegallyIndia would certainly be in a position to offer greater insight though.
107 students had participated in the campus placement activities. The total 2017 graduating batch size is 235, with 39 having opted out of placements, according to the university.
Did 63 out of 107 get placed or 63 out of 39?
Legist and Thomson Reuters are LPOs.
Placements do not portray a true picture. UPES has better placements than HNLU. Doesn't make it better, right?
What needs to be seen is that most top firms have JGLS at the bottom of the pay rung. Topper from JGLS gets lesser salary than an average kid from any of the top 10 nlus.
My colleagues from Jindal at many of these 'top' law firms earn as much as their NLU counterparts. Do you have a source for your claim? Because it all sounds cooked up.
Best students best faculty!
They're definitely not 'terrible'. I don't know who you have interacted with, but I am in touch with many of them. It's a mixed lot. From mediocre to brilliant - you'll find all types of students. And it's similar at NLUD, NALSAR, GNLU (I'd believe other schools too, just that my knowledge is restricted to these) as well. To be fair to them, they did reach the finals of Viz Vienna moot. Previously they've won Jessup, if I'm not wrong. These placements aren't very bad either.
1) NALSAR
2)NUJS
3) NLSIU
4) NLUJ
5) GNLU
6) JGLS
7) NLIU
8) HNLU
9) RGNUL
10) RMLNLU